July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
960 pages
24h 50m
English
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Chapter 5
Taking Control of Updates and Upgrades
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding why the official terminology stinks
Realizing that Win10 Home owners are unpaid beta testers
Minimizing problems with Win10 Home
Ducking and covering with Win10 Pro
Everybody complains about Windows 10’s forced patches and upgrades. Rightfully so. From the days of the Win10 EternalBlue patching fiasco in February 2017, to the bricked computers brought to you by the January 2018 patches, Microsoft has proved over and over again that it can’t be trusted to deliver reliable software fixes.
That’s where Automatic Update — the topic of this chapter — comes in. If you don’t go into Windows and change things, it automatically assumes that you want to install Microsoft’s changes the moment they appear. In the past, that’s led to all sorts of problems, and I doubt highly that it’ll change in the future.
I’ve been saying it, in print, for more than a decade: Automatic Update is for chumps.
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